"There Are No Slaves in France"
Subtitle: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195158663
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Nationalism; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; History / France
First sentence: In the early seventeenth century the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint Christophe imported indentured servants from France to raise crops like tobacco, which could be farmed in small plots by only a few fieldworkers.